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July 18, 1933. R. A. HENNINGS GAME Filed Oct. 15. 1931 4 Sheets-Sheet l INVENTOR.

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July 18, 1933. R. A. HENNINGS GAME 4 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Oct. 13, 1931 INVENTOR.

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4 Sheets-Sheet 3 [N V EN TOR A TTORNEYS July 18, 1933. R. A. HENNINGS GAME Filed Oct. 13. 1931 Patented July 18, 1933 PATENT OFFICE RAYMOND A. HENNINGS, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA GAME Application filed Cctober 13, 1931. Serial No. 568,629. 3

My present invention pertains to games and it contemplates the provision of a device through the medium of which one or more persons may play a game in which halls are used and a mallet is employed to drive said balls into various compartments having dif ferentscoring or point values.

The invention further contemplates the provision of a device so constructe and arranged that skill" required in driving balls into the compartments havin the bigoest point value due to the inclination of the table.

Other objects of the invention will be fully understood from the following description and claims when the same are read in conne tion with the drawings accompanying and forming part of this speciiication in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of this device.

tion and partly in elevation, looking down into my novel game. a

Figure 3 a seetional'view taken in the plane indicated by the lines 33 of Figure 2 and looking in the direction of the arrows.

Fi ures 4: and 5 are sectional views taken is preferably secured on a table counter 01' platform 1, and the said device comprises a bottom 3, a top 4 that is inclined as illustrated, a front wall 5, aback wall 6 and side walls 7 and 8. The said bottom wall is secured to the table or counter 1 by means of bolts 9 that pass through the slots 10 of the bottom wall 3 and surrounding the bolts 10 are springs 11 that are adapted to be placed under pressure by means of the washerbacked nuts 12. This construction permits adjustment of my novel device to various thicknesses of counters, platforms and the like. These bolts 9 secure the device at the Fi ure 2 is a too )lan view, )artlv in secback thereof while at the front provide the threaded bolts 13 that pass through a threaded plate 14 that in turn is secured to the platform 1 and these bolts 13 are proviced with knurled ends 15 and the purpose of said bolt-s is to give an incline to the casing or member 2 as a whole. Manifestly incline of the platform or wall 1 and the adjustment of the bolts 13 gives more or less of a diflicult angle of a position of the table or ball-race of the device. Mounted on the inclined wall 1- is the top 16 and arranged in this top 16 is a confining partially circular track 17 while arranged on the playing surface adjacent the track 17 is a fine grade of billiard cloth unnumbered and manifestly this cloth is provided on the upper face of the upper wall 4. Secured on the top 16 is a frame 19 that receivesa heavy glass 18 so that access to the balls is precluded.

Arranged on the wall 4 are obstacles 20 and 21 and equi-distantly spaced between these obstacles are partitions 22 that form the passage to the pockets numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Manifestly the driving of a ball into the pockets away from pocket 6 is fraught with more difficulty the further the player attempts to drive said ball and consequently a ball driven into pocket 1 has a greater counting value than one driven into pocket 2 and 2 a greater value than 3 et cetera. Mounted beneath or to the under side of the wall 1 is a device indicated as a whole by 2 1 and it comprises a shaft 25 fulcrumed in the brackets 26 and the said shaft 25 is provided with arms 27 having stop collars 30 and these arms 27 terminate in upstanding portions'28 that are leather faced at 29 and normally rest in the position as shown in Figure 5 to prevent the balls 23 from dropping into the ball-race 17. The upstanding portions 28 pass through a slot 31 and secured in the center of the shaft 25 is an arm 32 having a weight 33 that is adjustable at 34. The shaft 25 is further provided. with a forwardly reaching arm 35 having the integral disk 36 that is adapted to engage a plunger 37 that passes through a collar 38 mounted on the wall5 of the device 2. This plunger 37 is provided exteriorly of the wall 5 with a knob39. When it is desired to drop the balls in any of the pockets through the ball-race 17 it is merely necessary to push the plunger inwardly which will cause the shaft 25 to rotate thereby moving the arm 24 and abutments 28.

prevent escape of a succeeding ball into the shooting position, hence only one ball will be in a shooting position at any one time. Arranged adjacent the stop plunger 40 and immediately to the right in the Wall. 7 of the device 2 is a mallet having a one tip 46 and the said mallet travels in a slot or recess 47 and secured to the mallet head 45 is an arm 48 actuable by the lever 49 that is fulcrumed in the brackets 50. In order to hold the ball to be shot in position to engage the mallet I provide a slot 51 having the faces 52 and 58. The compartment or slot 47 receives the mallet 45 while the recess or slot 51 acts as a guide for the ball and also'a guide for the lever 48 of the mallet. The leather lining at-52 and 53 is to prevent injuries to the ball and at the same time to deaden the sound. The said shaft 49 is pro vided with a hand knob 54. Manifestly manipulation of the knob 54 will actuate the mallet to drive the ball to take the direction indicated by arrows 55 or 56 according to the skill of the player. The counting string 57 may be mounted at any convenient point desired.

.In the operation of the device, the player manipulates the knob 39 to drop the balls from the pockets to the ball race where the stop plunger 40 prevents the balls from entering the shooting position. Pulling the lever 41 causes one ball at a time to drop to the shooting position. The handle or knob 54 is then manipulated to cause the mallet to drive the halls into some of the compartments where a certain value is accord-ed the player depending upon the pocket or compartment in which theball lands. Anyone realizes that it is more difficult because of the angle of the device to drive the balls into the lower numbered compartments than to the higher numbered compartments because the over application of the mallet to the balls is fraught with the possibility of driving the balls so far that no point value accrues to the player.

IVhat I claim 1. A game comprising a casing having an inclined upper wall, obstac es arranged in the upper wall, partitions formed in the upper wall between the obstacles whereby compartments are formed, a cover spaced from the upper wall, means for normally holding miniature balls in the compartments and comprising a shaft fulcrumed to the under side of the upper wall, arms mounted 011 the shaft; said arms having upstanding portions that pass through the wall to engage the balls, an arm extending rearwardly from the shaft and having an adjustable weight thereon, a comparatively large arm forwardly reaching from the shaft and having a disk mounted on its free end, a plunger normally engaging the disk to hold the upstanding portions of the first arms of the shaft upwardly; said plunger being adapted on inward movement to force the disk downwardly to move the upstanding portions downwardly to release the balls from the COlIlPitltlTlGlltS, a stop plunger projecting into thepath of the balls and when actuated adapted to permit but one ball to move downwardly at a time, a shooting chamber pro vided with a recess into which the stop plunger permits one of the balls to pass, a mallet having an arm, a shaft secured to the arm and a handle secured to the shaft whereby rotary movement of the handle will cause the mallet to drive the ball out of the recess of the shooting compartments.

2. In a game apparatus a casing having a top wall provided with a ball runway compartment and having an opening at the end of said compartment, a shaft pivoted under the top wall, anarm carried by said shaft and having an end portion passing through said opening, a second arm carried by said shaft, a weight mounted upon said second arm, a third arm carried by said shaft and extending substantially in the same general direction as the first mentioned arm, an inclined disk carried at the free end of the third mentioned arm and a plunger rod slidable through the side of the casing and having an end adapted to ride upon the surface of said disk and depress the third mentioned arm, turn the shaft and withdraw the end portion of the first mentioned arm from the ball runway compartment.

RAYMOND A. HENNINGS.

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